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Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the Western United States. The western two thirds of the state is covered mostly with the mountain ranges and rangelands in the foothills of the Eastern Rocky Mountains, while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie known as the High Plains. Wyoming is the least populous U.S. state, with a U.S...

Timeline of Events

1832

7.24.1832

Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using Wyoming's South Pass.

1850

9.9.1850

The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.

1868

7.25.1868

Wyoming becomes a United States territory.

1890

7.10.1890

Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.

1906

9.24.1906

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.

1922

4.7.1922

Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming.

1924

11.4.1924

Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected the first female governor in the United States.

1925

1.5.1925

Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States.